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VR-. P. BBATTY.

I REFRIGBRATOR. l No. 29o,387. Patented Dec; .18, 1883-.

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'ROBERT PABEATTY, OF NORWALK, CONNECTICUT. y

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,387, dated December 18, 1883.

Application tiled April 23, 1883.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT I). BEATTY, of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Y Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification. o

The object of my invention is to afford a convenient and simple refrigerator for preserving butter and other articles of food, so that very little cold air is lost in the removal of the said articles or portions of them from the refrigerator, and so that several articles of food of different kinds, or several articles of the samekind but different qualities-as, for instance, different grades of butter-may be kept separate from each other in different receptacles without one being in any way contaminated or injured by the odors of another, and that portions of one kind or quality may be examined without removal, or be taken out for sale or use without disturbing the other kinds or qualities; and my improvements consist in a novel construction of refrigerator, whereby I accomplish the above results, as more particularly hereinafter described.

The accompanying drawings represent a refrigerator constructed with especial regard to use in grocerystores,with provision for keeping several grades of butter separate from each other, and provision for keeping other and miscellaneous articles separate from the butter.

Figure l represents a vertical transverse section of the refrigerator through the center of one of the separate butter-receptacles. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference represent like parts in both figures.

A designates the shell or body of the refrigerator, which is lined throughout, in the usual or any suitable manner,with any appropriate non-conducting material, b. The top of said body A has a lid or cover, C, to provide easy access to the upper portion of the refrigerator, in which the ice is placed, and the back of the said body or shell has one or more doors, D, to provide easy access to the lower part or cold-air chamber, H, of the refrigerator, which may be filled with such articles as it is not desired to separate fromeach other. The upper portion ofthe shell or body A has secured to 4its inner walls angle-pieces (No model.)

c, for the support of the ice-tray F, between y which and the walls of the refrigerator there is room for the circulation of air.

The front part of the casing or shell of the refrigerator is made with a projecting portion, K, which forms practically a portion of the cold-air chamber H, and may extend from end to end,'or any part of the length of the refrigerator, and which is adapted for containing and partiallyinclosing the separate butter-re ceptaclesI. These separate receptacles-have the character of inclined drawers, being fitted to openings in the inclined upper part of the projecting portion K of the casing, and being provided with lianges Z, which rest on the upper part, K, around the said openings. The said separate receptacles or drawers are provided with lids or covers M, which may be hinged to them, as shown, or entirely removable, and which are represented as composed of a frame or sash and a glass, n, through which the contents of the drawer or receptacle may be seen without opening the lid or cover.

The separate drawers or receptacles I are intended to be made of good conducting material-as galvanized or porcelain-glazed sheetiron-in order that their contents may be quickly and easily cooled They may be made of such size and form as to be adapted each to receive without waste of room and without breakingvbulk the entire mass of butter contained in an ordinary tub,which, on being put into the receptacle,will be quickly cooled, and portions of which are permitted to be taken out for retail sales on opening the lid I, without allowing any warm air to enter or cold air to escape from the interior space of the refrigerator, and it may be observed that different grades of butter may be kept in such separate receptacles without either contaminating or aHecting another, there being no communication between the said receptacles.

Having now` described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with a refrigerator having a cold-air chamber and an ice-receptacle, each provided with a door, the inclined or sloping offset or projection K, formingaportion of the wall of the cold-air chamber, said offset or projection having suspended within it a receptacle, (one or more,) the cover or IOO covers of which can be removed without admitting air into the interior of the body of the refrigerator, substantially as shown and described.

5 2. The combination, in a refrigerator, of a chamber for the circulation of cold air and separate receptacles partly inclosed within said chamber Without communication therewith, and furnished Wit-h transparent lids or 1o covers, which provide for the exhibition of their contents While closed, as Well as for opening the said receptacle or receptacles without establishing communication between them or between the cold-air chamber and the outside atmosphere, substantially as described.

R. P. BEATTY.

Vitnesscs:

FREDK. HAYNES, ED. L. M01-MN. 

